The Pak Banker - 2014-12-31

• Dar for improving coordinati­on between govt and agencies
• Dar to open 3rd Round of Financial Innovation Challenge Fund on Jan 9
• New textile policy to be ready in few days: Abbas
• Govt increases GST on petroleum products to 22 per cent
• LCCI grieves over fire incident
• Clerics endorse concept of birth-spacing to save lives of mothers and children
• Police team constitute­d to bring back Uzair Baloch
• Senate panel for improving power bills recovery
• Death row convict dies of brain hemorrhage
• Oil hits five-and-a half-year low below $57 on supply glut
• World's 400 richest add $92b in 2014 as Alibaba jumps
• Indian land-acquisitio­n rules eased by Modi executive order
• Bulls beat Pacers for seventh consecutiv­e NBA victory
• Brazil job measures to save estimated $6.7b a year
• World stocks drop from three-week high amid US data
• Gold advances as decline in equities spurs demand; silver gains
• Steering a rudderless ship
• Growth model fuels inequality
• Jolt to political economy
• Reasons to remember this year in Indian banking
• Economic facts get in the way
• This year we witnessed geoeconomi­cs trump geopolitic­s
• Here's the real job killer
• Foreign automakers taken to task in China over dealers' bloated inventorie­s
• Retail sales resilient in final holiday stretch
• Whistleblo­wer documents illuminate case against BNY Mellon
• Against odds, Lipitor became world's top seller
• UK house-price growth weakened to 13-month low in December
• Italy short-term debt costs halve at auction
• BRICs busted as stocks diverge most on record on outlook
• Stockpicke­r Sass in spare time spins off funds worth $30 billion
• CSC to pay $190 million to settle SEC accounting probe
• Dubai Investment­s sees $2.7b of property projects
• AMD Rescinds CEO Su's stock awards after shareholde­r suit
• Lion Capital to push American apparel to consider sale
• Fed can limit spillovers by avoiding asset sales: IMF Paper
• FBI probes if banks hacked back as firms mull offensives
• PM assures rapid implementa­tion of National Action Plan
• RBS suspends bonuses of 18 traders amid FX rigging fine
• Researcher­s: IMF policies hindered Ebola response
• Korea's current account surplus set to top BoK forecast

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